Two months ago, when looking at the US Import Price Index (by origin), we showed Where The US Is Importing All The “Evil” Deflation From. The answer, courtesy of Abenomics, was simple: Japan . Earlier today we got [...]

WHEN people think of a large Asian country on the brink of deflation , they probably have Japan in mind. But China, the biggest of them all, is now skirting close to outright falls in prices across a wide swathe of the [...]

TANGIBLE INVESTMENTS – Los Angeles – by James O'Dell – Gold and Silver prices rose modestly on Thursday, with Gold trading at $1,313.40 an ounce, and Silver trading at $19.90 an ounce, after U.S. jobless claims [...]

I don't track growth and inflation rates for Japan and the Euro zone, but it seems highly likely that the deflationary pressures in Japan for more than a decade and in the Euro zone recently are a direct result of prolonged [...]

Though Europe has to prevent itself from becoming another Japan . For Japan , it has to continue to make efforts to come out if its nearly 25 year mess: There is far too much angst about the possibility of deflation in the [...]

Fewer Americas were being born, points out Harry S. Dent Jr. in “The Demographic Cliff: How to Survive and Prosper During the Great Deflation of 2014-2019” (Portfolio). Following the Baby Boom, which peaked in … Dent, a business consultant, stock-market prognosticator and author who says now is the time to sell stocks, has plucked an old argument off the dusty shelves of 1980s political rhetoric (“We're nothing like Japan ! And that's horrible!”) and given it a new … [...]

As the evening progressed the dead-cat-bounce died with US and Japanese stocks tumbling to day-session lows. Dow futures are down 110 from the … Deflation deflation deflation . Deflation is the word of the day. Learn [...]